Cocoa beans — Area harvested by country

Crop and livestock statistics are recorded for 278 products, covering the following categories: 1) CROPS PRIMARY: Cereals, Citrus Fruit, Fibre Crops, Fruit, Oil Crops, Oil Crops and Cakes in Oil Equivalent, Pulses, Roots and Tubers, Sugar Crops, Treenuts and Vegetables. Data are expressed in terms of area...

Countries reporting
64
Highest
3.81 million ha
Côte d'Ivoire
Lowest
0 ha
Tonga
Median
7,324 ha
Years covered
64
1961–2024
Data points
4,994

What the numbers show

Cocoa beans — Area harvested is currently reported for 64 countries. The highest value is 3.81 million ha in Côte d'Ivoire; the lowest is 0 ha in Tonga.

The median across all reporting countries is 7,324 ha, and the mean is 175,994 ha.

Over the past decade 37 countries rose and 24 fell. The largest increase was in Democratic Republic of the Congo (up 934.1%), and the largest decrease in Jamaica (down 81.0%).

Cocoa beans — Area harvested: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 Côte d'Ivoire 3.81 million ha 2024 up 23.7% volatile
2 Indonesia 1.39 million ha 2024 down 19.7% volatile
3 Nigeria 1.30 million ha 2024 up 13.6% rising
4 Ghana 919,824 ha 2024 down 45.4% rising
5 Cameroon 642,244 ha 2024 down 10.1% rising
6 Brazil 617,168 ha 2024 down 12.3% rising
7 Ecuador 541,588 ha 2024 up 45.3% rising
8 Sierra Leone 198,714 ha 2024 up 351.6% volatile
9 Colombia 197,709 ha 2024 up 48.3% rising
10 Peru 189,602 ha 2024 up 77.8% volatile
11 Liberia 182,495 ha 2024 up 245.0% volatile
12 Caribbean 128,433 ha 2024 down 35.9% rising
13 Melanesia 127,342 ha 2024 up 0.6% rising
14 Papua New Guinea 113,593 ha 2024 up 2.3% rising
15 India 111,036 ha 2024 up 56.4% volatile
16 Dominican Republic 103,774 ha 2024 down 31.2% rising
17 Uganda 103,197 ha 2024 up 57.5% volatile
18 Democratic Republic of the Congo 84,675 ha 2024 up 934.1% volatile
19 Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) 77,391 ha 2024 up 17.0% flat
20 Congo 53,617 ha 2024 up 197.8% volatile
21 Mexico 52,274 ha 2024 down 12.3% falling
22 Guinea 50,901 ha 2024 up 154.5% volatile
23 Sao Tome and Principe 43,874 ha 2024 up 45.2% falling
24 Philippines 33,055 ha 2024 up 174.7% volatile
25 Togo 25,336 ha 2024 up 0.8% volatile
26 Madagascar 23,481 ha 2024 up 92.0% volatile
27 United Republic of Tanzania 20,907 ha 2024 up 29.1% volatile
28 Nicaragua 16,726 ha 2023 up 123.0% volatile
29 Solomon Islands 10,754 ha 2024 down 11.9% volatile
30 Dominica 10,705 ha 2024 up 65.0% volatile
31 Bolivia (Plurinational State of) 10,397 ha 2024 up 2.0% rising
32 Costa Rica 7,783 ha 2024 up 63.9% volatile
33 Honduras 6,865 ha 2024 up 56.0% volatile
34 Malaysia 6,203 ha 2024 down 61.5% volatile
35 Haiti 6,142 ha 2024 down 79.5% volatile
36 Equatorial Guinea 5,887 ha 2024 down 33.0% volatile
37 Guatemala 4,533 ha 2024 up 6.3% rising
38 Cuba 3,937 ha 2024 down 5.2% falling
39 Viet Nam 3,122 ha 2024 down 49.6% falling
40 Vanuatu 2,909 ha 2024 down 10.8% rising
41 Angola 2,894 ha 2024 up 6.2% rising
42 Panama 2,847 ha 2024 down 47.3% rising
43 Samoa 2,632 ha 2024 up 4.4% volatile
43 Polynesia 2,632 ha 2024 up 4.4% volatile
45 Trinidad and Tobago 1,930 ha 2024 down 35.7% volatile
46 Gabon 1,815 ha 2024 down 45.0% volatile
47 Timor-Leste 1,728 ha 2024 down 2.7% volatile
48 Sri Lanka 1,689 ha 2024 down 22.3% volatile
49 Guyana 1,175 ha 2024 up 1.8% rising
50 El Salvador 875 ha 2024 up 26.4% rising
51 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 826 ha 2024 up 4.7% rising
52 Jamaica 722 ha 2024 down 81.0% falling
53 Belize 533 ha 2024 down 24.8% volatile
54 Grenada 343 ha 2024 down 73.4% volatile
55 Suriname 160 ha 2024 down 3.6% volatile
56 Comoros 130 ha 2024 up 6.6% rising
57 Fiji 86 ha 2024 down 3.4% volatile
58 Micronesia 82 ha 2024 up 1.2% rising
58 Micronesia (Federated States of) 82 ha 2024 up 1.2% rising
60 Saint Lucia 54 ha 2024 up 500.0% volatile
61 Thailand 43 ha 2024 up 2.4% volatile
62 Martinique 0 ha 1992 volatile
62 Guadeloupe 0 ha 2006 volatile
62 Tonga 0 ha 1992 volatile

Regions and income groups

Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.

About this data

Indicator
Cocoa beans — Area harvested
Unit
ha
Source
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO (FAO)
Coverage
82 places, 4,994 data points, 1961–2024
Last refreshed

Crop and livestock statistics are recorded for 278 products, covering the following categories: 1) CROPS PRIMARY: Cereals, Citrus Fruit, Fibre Crops, Fruit, Oil Crops, Oil Crops and Cakes in Oil Equivalent, Pulses, Roots and Tubers, Sugar Crops, Treenuts and Vegetables. Data are expressed in terms of area harvested, production quantity and yield. Cereals: Area and production data on cereals relate to crops harvested for dry grain only. Cereal crops harvested for hay or harvested green for food, feed or silage or used for grazing are therefore excluded. 2) CROPS PROCESSED: Beer of barley; Cotton lint; Cottonseed; Margarine, short; Molasses; Oil, coconut (copra); Oil, cottonseed; Oil, groundnut; Oil, linseed; Oil, maize; Oil, olive, virgin; Oil, palm; Oil, palm kernel; Oil, rapeseed; Oil, safflower; Oil, sesame; Oil, soybean; Oil, sunflower; Palm kernels; Sugar Raw Centrifugal; Wine. 3) LIVE ANIMALS: Animals live n.e.s.; Asses; Beehives; Buffaloes; Camelids, other; Camels; Cattle; Chickens; Ducks; Geese and guinea fowls; Goats; Horses; Mules; Pigeons, other birds; Pigs; Rabbits and hares; Rodents, other; Sheep; Turkeys. 4) LIVESTOCK PRIMARY: Beeswax; Eggs (various types); Hides buffalo, fresh; Hides, cattle, fresh; Honey, natural; Meat (ass, bird nes, buffalo, camel, cattle, chicken, duck, game, goat, goose and guinea fowl, horse, mule, Meat nes, meat other camelids, Meat other rodents, pig, rabbit, sheep, turkey); Milk (buffalo, camel, cow, goat, sheep); Offals, nes; Silk-worm cocoons, reelable; Skins (goat, sheep); Snails, not sea; Wool, greasy. 5) LIVESTOCK PROCESSED: Butter (of milk from sheep, goat, buffalo, cow); Cheese (of milk from goat, buffalo, sheep, cow milk); Cheese of skimmed cow milk; Cream fresh; Ghee (cow and buffalo milk); Lard; Milk (dry buttermilk, skimmed condensed, skimmed cow, skimmed dried, skimmed evaporated, whole condensed, whole dried, whole evaporated); Silk raw; Tallow; Whey (condensed and dry); Yoghurt.